Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κεῖμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεῖμαι κείσομαι

Structure: κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to lie, lie outstretched, to lie asleep, repose, lie idle, lie still
  2. to lie sick or wounded, lie in misery
  3. to lie dead
  4. to lie neglected, uncared for, unburied
  5. (of wrestlers) to have a fall

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ τὸν θάνατον δ’ ἀποσημαίνων τοῦ βασιλέωσ φησίν ὡσ ἀμφὶ κρητῆρα τραπέζασ τε πληθούσασ κείμεθα, δεικνύων καὶ τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ παρ’ αὐταῖσ ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ τῆσ μέθησ γενόμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 66 1:1)
  • ὦ ξεῖν’, ἄγγειλον Λακεδαιμονίοισ ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖσ κείνων πειθόμενοι νομίμοισ, τοῖσ δ’ ὑμετέροισ προγόνοισ· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 147:2)
  • ταῖσ αὐτῶν ψυχαῖσ κείμεθα ῥυσάμενοι. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 39 12:1)
  • Ἄκλαυστοι καὶ ἄθαπτοι, ὁδοιπόρε, τῷδ’ ἐπὶ νώτῳ Θεσσαλίησ τρισσαὶ κείμεθα μυριάδεσ, Αἰτωλῶν δμηθέντεσ ὑπ’ Ἄρεοσ ἠδὲ Λατίνων, οὓσ Τίτοσ εὐρείησ ἤγαγ’ ἀπ’ ’ Ἰταλίησ, Ἠμαθίῃ μέγα πῆμα. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 9 2:1)
  • ἐν ὔμμι γὰρ ὡσ θεῷ κείμεθα τλάμονεσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, epode30)

Synonyms

  1. to lie

  2. to lie sick or wounded

  3. to lie dead

  4. to have a fall

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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